What is corporate crime? How “true” are true crime podcasts? This episode is brought to you by Jana Macfarlane Horn who tries to answer these questions to give you more insight into her research about corporate crime discourses in documentaries and podcasts. She will cover some basic concepts of Criminology, crime media research, and true crime podcasting. Jana will also discuss some of the most prominent corporate crime cases, such as the LIBOR manipulation, Deepwater Horizon, and the Rana Plaza factory collapse to give you more context to the criminological theories she will cover.
Jana’s OU profile:
https://www.open.ac.uk/people/js37449
Twitter: @JanaMH___
Suggested reading/references:
Barak, G. (1988) Newsmaking criminology: Reflections of the media, intellectuals, and crime. Justice Quarterly, 5(4), pp. 565-587.
Friedrichs, D.O. (2010) Trusted criminals: white collar crime in contemporary society. 4th Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2015) The corporate criminal: why corporations must be abolished. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Yardley, E., Kelly, E. and Robinson-Edwards, S. (2019) “Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber,” Crime Media Culture, 15(3), pp. 503–521.
